Built for Where Security Is Going: LUMINATE by DNSFilter™

Every so often, the market moves faster than the categories built to serve it. Security is having one of those moments now. AI has changed the speed of attacks, the shape of the enterprise, and the questions boards are asking, all at once. LUMINATE by DNSFilter™ is our answer to that moment.

LUMINATE by DNSFilter™ launched today from the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square: Five product suites built on the most upstream control point in cybersecurity.

Adversaries now operate at AI speed, standing up and weaponizing infrastructure in minutes. Any model that depends on seeing an attack before acting on it is, by definition, running behind. The organizations that hold their ground will be the ones that move the decision point earlier: Ahead of the attack, not in its aftermath. LUMINATE by DNSFilter™ puts that decision at the DNS layer, before a connection is ever made.

Years of point solutions have left most security programs with more tools than they can integrate and more alerts than they can act on. Each product does its job, but the signals rarely connect, and adversaries have learned to operate in the seams. Complexity has quietly become one of the largest risks on the register, and one of the most expensive to manage. LUMINATE by DNSFilter™ brings its suites onto one agent, one console, and one intelligence model, so the signals connect by design.

On top of threat velocity and solution complexity, employees have adopted generative AI faster than any governance program can keep pace with. Autonomous agents now act on their behalf, connecting to services that may not be endorsed or approved by IT. For most leadership teams, the question of who can see what those agents connect to doesn't yet have a confident answer. That's the gap boards are starting to notice, and one LUMINATE by DNSFilter™ is built to close.

We saw the shift play out across this year's conference season. Between RSA and Black Hat, shadow AI and AI governance moved from emerging concerns to the top of the agenda for the security leaders we spoke with. When we previewed LUMINATE by DNSFilter™ at Black Hat, those were the conversations that ran longest.

What connects velocity, complexity, and AI is where each of them begins. The AI-generated phishing domain, the unsanctioned AI tool, the agent calling a service nobody approved: Every one of them starts with a DNS request. That makes DNS the most upstream control point in the enterprise, and the one layer where all three pressures can be addressed together rather than tool by tool.

It's also a layer most organizations still treat as plumbing. 90% of organizations have experienced a DNS attack; DNSFilter sees more than 6 trillion DNS queries a month. At that scale, DNS stops being infrastructure and becomes intelligence.

That's the thinking behind LUMINATE by DNSFilter™: Take the most upstream control point in security and build a platform around it. Five product suites run on a DNS Intelligence Engine: Advanced Filtering, Behavior Analytics, AI Governance & Controls, Encryption & Privacy, and Threat Intelligence. The decision to block, allow, or isolate happens at the earliest possible moment, and the intelligence behind every decision retrains the model in real-time. Organizations start with the suite they need and grow from there, on one agent and one console.

LUMINATE by DNSFilter™ also changes the story CISOs can tell their boards. That conversation has long centered on detection and response: How fast did we find it, and how quickly did we contain it? The more valuable measure is how much never required a response at all. Prevention at the first point of contact turns security from a cost center defending its budget into a function that can point to the incidents that never reached the business.

To the security leaders who shared their priorities with us this year, and to the team across DNSFilter who brought LUMINATE by DNSFilter™ to market: Thank you.

The center of gravity in security is moving upstream, toward the first moment a connection is requested. LUMINATE by DNSFilter™ is built to meet it there.

See it for yourself: Explore LUMINATE by DNSFilter™, or join Kate Trojanowski, Barnaby Wood, and Serena Raymond on Thursday, Oct. 29 at 1 p.m. ET for Falling Into Place: DNSFilter's Fall Product Webinar.